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The City University of New York's CUNY Graduate School of Journalism offers a top-notch, affordable education teaching traditional journalism values while preparing students to thrive in a rapidly changing media landscape.Learn More →

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Academics

The course of study for the M.A. in Journalism degree is challenging and requires full-time attendance. Students complete 45 units of course work in three semesters, participate in a comprehensive summer internship, and produce a substantial final or capstone project.Learn More →

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Admissions

Our goal is to attract a diverse group of the highest caliber aspiring journalists to our Master of Arts in Journalism program, then to guide and support them every step of the way, from application through graduation and beyond.Learn More →

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Career Services

The Career Services Office will work with you from the beginning of your time here to the day of graduation -- and beyond. (We’re available to help alums, too.) Among other things, we review resumes, weigh in on cover letters, brainstorm with you about internship and employment choices...Learn More →

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About CUNY J-School

The Master of Arts degree in journalism at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism is an intensive, three-semester program designed to prepare gifted graduate students for a wide variety of careers in the field of journalism.Learn More →

Our Campus

Administration

Program Overview

The course of study for the M.A. degree in Journalism is challenging and requires full-time attendance. Students complete 45 units of course work in three semesters, participate in a comprehensive summer internship, and produce a substantial final or capstone project.Learn More →

Concentrations

Highlights

WANTED: Applicants from a Variety of Backgrounds

Our goal is to attract a diverse group of the highest caliber aspiring journalists to our Masters of Arts in Journalism program, then to guide and support them every step of the way, from application through graduation and beyond.Learn More →

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Donating to CUNY J-School

In order to build a truly great program, the School must continue to secure supplementary support from the private sector. Gifts of any size are welcome and can make a big difference in the lives and academic experience of CUNY J-School students. Learn More →

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CUNY J-Camp

We offer professional development courses for young and mid-career journalists in social media, digital photography, video storytelling, web advertising, and many other skills through our continuing educational program.Learn More →

Evan Ortiz, Rio Fernandes, Ellyce Ferguson and Rebeca Ibarra react to a slideshow recapping their activities during a farewell luncheon for the diversity fellows in the Knight CUNYJ Summer Internship Program. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

Roxanne L. Scott, ’14, interviews a ranger in Virunga National Park about poaching in the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of her recent fellowship with the International Women’s Media Foundation’s African Great Lakes Reporting Initiative.

Catherine Roberts, ’15, working as a Google Fellow this summer at Inside Energy in Denver, helps out on a shoot for a story about a planned microgrid in rural Colorado.

Ana Maria Rodriguez, ’15, produced this video, about a homeless Tucson resident who rides a bike to cope with his mental illness, at The New York Times Student Journalism Institute in May.

Class of ’15 student Zach Wasser pitched a New York Times editor his first project from his video storytelling class, a funny piece on a singing telegram. She passed but assigned him this story instead. He produced the video to accompany a Page 1 Times story with ’14 alum Kayle Hope.

NYC City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, keynote speaker at the 2015 Ippies Awards for the community and ethnic press, accepts a photograph taken by ’14 alum Scott Klocksin in the aftermath of a building explosion in her East Harlem district. (Photo by Skyler Reid, ’13)

A major investigation of inmate abuse at the infamous Attica Prison in upstate New York by our investigative journalist-in-residence, Tom Robbins, has led to a U.S. Justice Department probe .

Listen to our journalist-in-resident Ta-Nehisi Coates in conversation with MSBNC host Chris Hayes on the subject of being smart in prime time.

Take a look at some of the fabulous student video and documentary work coming out of our Visual Journalism Program. (This reel was assembled by documentary filmmaker Sabrina Schmidt Gordon, who teaches at the CUNY J-School.)

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Life After J-School

Adeola Fayehun, ’08, Questions Zimbabwe Leader Robert Mugabe

Adeola Fayehun, the host of “Keeping It Real With Adeola,” a weekly satire show about African politics on SaharaTV and a foreign correspondent for THE NATION newspaper in Nigeria, recently grilled Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and asked him when he was going to step down. See the video and read the story about her.